Friday, 13 July 2018

Many developers look for a solution to test mail functionality for their local development work in order to test if the email functionality working fine or not, before they can proceed with deployment on actual production server. To ease up this task we are here with an easy to use and configurable solution for running your SMTP server on local development environment.Local Mail Setup*. Download hMailServer
from https://www.hmailserver.com

*. After completing the download open hMailServer Administrator.

*. To connect hMailServer click on Add in admin panel and provide Host name as “localhost”. Keep other fields as it is.

*. Now click on just added localhost and click on Connect, when prompted . This will open
hMailserver Administrator panel.

*. To start using hMailserver you need to add domain, under
Domains section. To do so click on Add domain to add the domain, provide your local
domain name and click on save.

*. Next step is to setup an account. Click on Domains
-> (Your domain) -> Accounts -> Add and provide any name for
your account e.g. ‘techantic’ and click save. You can also provide password but this
is not mandatory. Keep rest of the fields as it is.

*. Now
mail server is ready to use. Next step is to configure your local e-mail.

*. After download and install open Thunderbird client and click
on “Skip
this and use my existing email”

*. This
will prompt you to enter your e-mail address. Enter your e-mail account that
you just set up on hMailServer and the password of hMailServer admin and click
on Continue.

*. Now you need to update server host name as 127.0.0.1 for both IMAP and POP3. Also select port as 143 for IMAP and 25 for SMTP and click on Re-test. Finally click on Done.

*. Now your local e-mail setup is complete, you can use the
local mail server for your local application development.

To configure settings in your config file of your development application
under mailSettings -> smtp in from attribute put your local e-mail
id and under mailSettings -> network in host attribute put your local
application address and make sure value of port is 25.

That’s it! You can test your mails on your local development machine J

Friday, 13 February 2015

WhatsApp the worlds most popular messaging app is now available to you straight from your pc browser. Yes it's true you can now use your favowrite messaging platform on the web using your browser. This is an official WhatsApp's service for its users. The service is only available for Chrome browser and WhatsApp promises to deliver it on other browsers soon.All the Android, Windows phone, Nokia and Blackberry users can get the benefit of this service. iOS devices are not yet supported due to Apple's platform limitations. To enjoy this service you need to have latest version of WhatsApp running on your phone and a Google Chrome browser on your pc.

How to use WhatsApp web on your browser

So let's begin and see how you can use WhatsApp on your web browser.*. Open your Chrome browser and head over to the following url https://web.whatsapp.com and you will see something like in the screenshot below.

*. You can see a QR code on your browser. You don't need a QR reader you just need a phone on which you installed WhatsApp. So open your WhatsApp on your phone and tap on more options (which you can get from the three dots from the top right corner) and choose WhatsApp web.

*. A QR reader will open on your phone. Now point your phone towards the QR code on your computer and it will automatically logged in after reading the QR code.

*. Once your phone and computer are connected you are
able to manage your logged in computers f1rom your phone via the Options on the web menu of WhatsApp. From here you can log out from all computers or you can use the options menu in WhatsApp on the web to log out from
the PC you're currently using.

*. WhatsApp will by default keep you logged
in, but having logged out you'll need to go
through the QR code process again the next time you want to log into
WhatsApp on that machine.Easier isn't it...! Enjoy WhatsApp on the web on your computer and start conversation in a new way from your browser.

Monday, 26 January 2015

If you are living in a country where some sites are blocked by the server or your office or school colleges have a restricted access to the Internet then this trick may help you in many ways. Most of the colleges and school applied some security firewalls that doesn't allow you to access certain sites. There are lots of options available to access blocked sites such as using proxy sites, VPN servers etc. But local administrator can also block these services also so it is very important for you to know about different tricks to bypass the restrictions. So we are here to help you.

Today we will see another excellent service Hola which can be used to access sites that are blocked by a local administrator. If you want to check the previous post check it here How to access blocked sites using Cocoon.

What is Hola?

To access blocked sites here is an excellent service named Hola which provides wide variety of services on different platforms. It is free to use VPN service. You can use Hola on your computer as well as on your mobile phones. Hola is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. It is also available as an application software for Windows and Mac. Also Android and iOS devices can use Hola to access blocked sites in any public or private network.

How to access blocked sites?

Using Hola to access sites is very simple check out their official website http://hola.org

*. Download Hola as a browser add-on on any browser.

*. After successful installation you will see an icon on top right corner.

*. Open any blocked site. If you unable to open that site then click on Hola's icon and select the country like US and in a few seconds you may able to access blocked site easily. See the example screenshot below for netflix.com

After unblocking site you will see any country's flag like US from where you are accessing that site and you won't be trapped by anyone. Stay and surf anonymously anywhere.

Thursday, 15 January 2015

There are lots of software manufacturers are in the business of Antivirus and Internet security tools. All of them claim that their product is best among all the competitors in the market. How well they perform in a real world? Which is the best? Who provides best Internet security? There are lot more questions arises before choosing an Antivirus solution. Here we will look among some best security suites too minimize the confusion.

1. Bitdefender Total Security 2015

One of my favorites Antivirus and Internet security software Bitdefender Total Security 2015 is a total package. It has some premium features includes file encryption, device antitheft and secure online storage.*. Bitdefender Total Security 2015 engages security with a single
click.*. Bitdefender’s OneClick Autopilot automatically makes the best security decisions for you.*. Bitdefender Total Security 2015 automatically detects when you Work,
Play or Watch movies, and prevents other apps from slowing you down.*. OneClick Optimizer speeds up your system and frees up disk space.

*. A two-way
firewall, parental controls and cloud antispam are another few features.In my words it is one of the best security provider and you should try for it.2. Norton Internet Security 2015

The user interface is much easier to use and navigate
than the previous versions of Norton. This year Norton done a good job
and you can get one for you if you are fan of Norton products.

*. In real-time antivirus tests Norton
scoring near the top and blocked nearly all known viruses.*. Norton uses less memory, it uses less than 1% CPU and
only about 7MB of memory and during full system scan CPU usage at about 55%-90% and 50MB of RAM which is average usage.
*. There are five basic sections for each function of the software. Each is
clearly labelled with big icons. *. Overall, it's a clean, modern and easy to use simple interface.

3. Kaspersky Internet Security 2015

In the recent years Kaspersky has grown to become a global
leader in PC security. It has very good virus and malware protection.

*. Kaspersky is extremely good
at identifying, blocking, and removing virus and other threats.
Kaspersky's heuristic protection and false positive detection also nearly perfect which detect previously unknown viruses.
*. It has very good overall malware protection

*. Kaspersky uses 130MB of RAM while in idle state and goes to 550MB when full system scan which we think is too much compared to others.

4. Vipre Internet Security 2015

With several added security features and
the same antivirus protection of VIPRE Antivirus, VIPRE Internet
Security earns our "Editors' Choice Award" again this year, even though
the software isn't perfect.

*. The antivirus engine has excellent real-time
protection and is effective at removing viruses. Its malicious website
filter prevents you from accidentally visiting a known harmful website.

*. Firewall protection is great and it scores 10 out of 10 in our tests.

*. There are some extra features for added security like its
Facebook scanner and its history cleaner.

*. User interface is not that much good enough it has to be improved.

*. Even though the user interface isn't that much better it does it's job better than any of the other Internet
Security software. And if ever get infected, ThreatTrack
Security (VIPRE's makers) will help you remove it for free.

5. AVG Internet Security 2015

AVG is all known to us for their free Antivirus solution. But basic Antivirus doesn't ensures fully protected PC.
For 2015 AVG has significantly improved their Internet Security
suite this year with an improved firewall, and better overall
protection.

*. The user interface is much more modern and easy to use.

*. Malware detection is very good with AVG which was an issue before this.

*. AVG is not bad in real time protection also and it performed well in this category.

*. It consumes low memory space.

*. It is one of the better all around Internet Security suites.

This is our review among the top Antivirus and Internet security products hopefully you enjoyed it.

Monday, 12 January 2015

Are you frustrated the way online colleges and schools blocking websites? Did you just hate Cyberoam blocking sites in colleges. Don't worry now we have a solution for you. These days crazy Internet surfers like us are always want to access torrents, facebook, twitter and other social services in offices, schools and colleges also but the firewalls of these institutions are also becomes very stronger and cannot be bypassed easily but thanks to Cocoon these restrictions can also be overcome easily.

What is Cocoon?Cocoon is basically a browser add-on which is used to bypass internet restrictions.According to the cocoon developers,"Cocoon is an all-in-one plugin that makes everything you do online secure, virus-free and private. Without Cocoon websites and hackers have access to your computer to leave cookies or infect it with viruses and malware. You even get protection on open Wi-Fi access points."

There are number of advertisers who track your every move, hackers in a hurry to steal your passwords and viruses needs a chance to attack your computer. To avoid all this you want something that hide you from the threatening things of the Internet world and here comes the Cocoon.

Cocoon is available for Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer that helps you browse the Web securely in an anonymous environment. Cocoon is available for free download and also available in paid version that is also known as Cocoon+.How Cocoon works?Cocoon uses a proxy service, so that all of your browsing is done through Cocoon's servers. All the web sites that you browse see their IP address or ISP instead of tracking you.Cocoon scan files before you download ensuring that your computer won't be attacked by any malware.How to use Cocoon?Using Cocoon is very easy and don't need any specific knowledge. To use Cocoon following steps will help you.

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

We are back with another awesome trick. Did you know about Facebook's new photo messages which you can create for your friends on fb? Many of you are very well known about this video messages provided by facebook for it's users.What is Say Thanks video?

Say thanks is created by Facebook to provide it's users video greeting cards. By using the say thanks feature of facebook users can create thanks video for their friends on facebook. It's a customizable video greeting in which you may add some another photos from your computer and make a video of it or can use previously shared photos with friends and create a great video to say thanks to your friends for being with you for a long time. You can create say thanks video from the link https://www.facebook.com/thanksHow to download say thanks facebook videos?Most of the users already created say thanks video using facebook's say thanks feature. But they are not able to download it only they can view it online. Some of my friends also asked me about how they can download the video. But don't worry friends now you can able to download the video and also other videos which are not downloadable on the internet or on the Facebook. To download the video here is a complete solution, follow it and enjoy the download of facebook's thank you cards.*. First of all download the firefox extension Video DownloadHelper from here.

*. Now login to facebook and play the video which you want to download.*. When the video starts playing you will see the moving icon on top right side on your firefox. Now click on the small dropdown icon and then click on download. You can also convert the video format by clicking on Download and convert.

*. That's it your video will now starts downloading.

Hopefully you like this post. Keep visiting for some more tricks for you.

Thursday, 25 December 2014

Facebook users are always in a hurry to clear their chat messages or we can say private chat messages from their account. But there are some important messages that needs to be retrieve or recover after accidental deletion. But most of the users are not able to recover these messages or unaware of the fact that the messages can be retrieved. Here is a guide for you which help you recover your deleted messages, photos as well as videos. We will see how this facebook feature worked for us.

Retrieve Deleted Facebook Messages, Photos and Videos

Following simple steps will let you recover your deleted messages, photos and videos from facebook.

*. Login to your facebook account and go to settings or directly click on the link.

*. Now click on Download a copy of your facebook account.

*. Now click on the Download Archive button and you will prompted to enter your facebook account password.

*. Just enter the password and your download will begin.

*. Now just extract the downloaded zip file and click on the index.html file and you can see all your facebook information.

It's very simple, you can now able to access your deleted messages, photos and all your facebook data is available to you.

Friday, 10 October 2014

Social networking sites like Facebook and Google+ are flooded
with different types of memes these days. These memes are in the form of text or
emotions pictures. These memes are very much involved in the social viral
activities and viral stories on certain topic. People use Meme as their daily
conversation.

We may wonder how these memes are created. For those who want to
create their own customized memes here is one of the meme creation service http://memeful.com.

Memeful is very easy to use and free service to create memes
with customized text.

*. To create your own meme head over to the website http://memeful.com and select the available
memes.

*. Type in any text in the two text boxes provided and click on
Create or you can also upload any picture from your PC and then enter text and create a meme.

That’s it now you can save the created image or share it
directly on the social networking sites from the social links provided. You can
also try http://imgflip.com/memegenerator for meme creation.

Friday, 3 October 2014

Every person likes to search on Google at any moment whenever
he/she needs any type of information from the web, Google is a guide for anyone
who is surfing on the internet. But most important thing that we are not very
well aware of is that Google stores every single word that we search on their
search engine. Every query that you search on Google and all the websites that
you visit from the Google search results are anonymously recorded by the search
giant.

According to Google, the recorded search data is used to provide
you with better search results and recommendations across Google’s products. But
most of the people are not that much aware of the fact that Google is storing
their personal search queries and visited URL’s.

But don’t worry, Google does allow you to delete your search
history. You can delete entire search history or some portion of the search
history.

How to Delete your Google Search History

Following steps are simple enough to know more about deleting Google history.

Thursday, 25 September 2014

You have noticed that in the recent few years cyber crime is increased a lot. Everyday we hear news about cyber crime or hacking through mail
servers, etc. Even the top websites like facebook, twitter, gmail, yahoo etc. also get
hammered by the cyber criminals to get the sensitive information of the users.
Personal information on these sites open to these criminals can cause vey
serious issues to ourselves.

In the few days of time you may heard about stealing of personal
photos of Hollywood celebrities by iCloud hacking and sharing it on internet.
This is a major kind of issue. It proves that although you delete your personal
information from the web it may recoverable by these cyber criminals. So be
alert is the only solution don’t reply to unknown persons or mails in your
inbox.

But good news is that you can now know about your e-mail status
in cyber attack. The website https://haveibeenpwned.com, let you know about your account status in a cyber attack. What
the service does is, it collects the breached data which have been made publicly
available and when you enter your email id, the service compares it with its
database of compromised accounts and notifies you know if your email account is
found in any of the recent security breaches.

In another recent news you may heard that millions of e-mail
accounts were hacked and the mail providers suggested to change the credentials
of the users. So this service is very useful to let us know about our mail
account. The site https://haveibeenpwned.com only stores the
e-mail id and usernames of the compromised accounts. If you have more doubt,
check out their FAQ page for more details.

Make sure from now that you check if your account has been
compromised and do let your friends know about this service as well.

Saturday, 13 September 2014

Nowadays everyone has a FB account and they’re very much
familiar with news feed on facebook. Sometimes there
were lots of posts by our friends and we don’t have time to read it completely
and also some valuable posts shared by different pages that we need to be saved
on for later reference. But don’t you worry for that now, because facebook introduces a
new option to save your news feed on your facebook account and you may able to
view it later whenever you need it.

Where is save option on fb/Facebook?

Finding a save option is not much difficult on facebook.
You have to login to your facebook account and you will see
lots of news feeds or you can say posts by different users or pages.

You have to point out the post you want to save and after your
decision to save a post just click on the small drop down
arrow icon from top right corner of the post and and you will see
a option to save. Click on that and your post will be saved for later
references.

You can access your saved news feeds by vising the link https://www.facebook.com/saved or you
can also have an option to click on the saved option which is available on left
side in the apps or
favourites section on the home page.

We know you should enjoy this simple tutorial. Keep following us
for some more….

Wednesday, 10 September 2014

If you are eager to know about the trending stories on the
social media then Buzzsumo is for you.

Whenever we make a search on search engines it gives results
according to their algorithm but these results may not be latest results they
may be older because search engines not updated in real time so we don’t get
real time results. But by using social network this can be easily bypassed,
because when any latest story liked or shares on the social network it becomes a
popular source of information. As likes and shares increases the popularity rank
of the story also increases. So the same activity of social sites captured by
Buzzsumo and present you the relevant results.

What is Buzzsumo ?

You may be confuse with all this, so let me clear you that buzzsumo.com is a service like a search engine which provides you up to date
information about on a specific topic, trending stories on the social networking
sites.

You have observe that social network becomes the very popular
and faster medium in recent times to share information than traditional news
sources like television or other news broadcasters. So can take help of Buzzsumo
to find the trending news or story on any topic.

You have to just enter two three words relevant to the topic for which you want to search for just like a search engine or you can also enter URL of the social site and the results will be available quickly.

If you need to increase the relevancy, you can even filter
Buzzsumo results as Article, Videos, Infographic, Guest posts, Giveaways etc. You can also filter results by their time period.

Buzzsumo is available for free by its basic plan you can also
buy premium plans for better results.

Just sign up on buzzsumo.com and start searching for trending
stories now….

Thursday, 14 August 2014

Everyday we deal with different websites for
different kinds of information. Mostly we don’t care about a website and don’t
know how safe it is to browse. Sometimes some websites may be infected with
suspicious content that can harm your system. Although you trust the site you
must identify about it’s protection for your own safety.

In the past it is very easy for the user to find out
the harmful websites because of the poor designing of websites and annoying
notifications but nowadays with the mastered improvement in the designing of
such harmful websites may confuse anybody and they may not easily detectable for
a normal user.

Fortunately for a user there is an easy solution in
the form of a browser extension namedWOT.

What is WOT ?

WOT is a browser extension that is available for all
popular browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera. WOT notify users
about a website whether it is safe to browse or not. Once installed, the
extension icon appears on your browser and changes color of it according to
ratings provided by millions of users for that website around the
world.

If a website is harmful, the extension will show a
red light and in case it is completely safe, it will display a green light.

Apart from the browser icon WOT also displays a icon near search result links to
alert you before you click on that link. It’s also a very amazing feature of WAT
that help you protecting yourself before clicking any link.

Being an experienced web user or a newbie to the
Internet all the users can protect themselves with this extension. So enjoy safe
browsing on the Internet.

Monday, 11 August 2014

All of you watch lots of videos on Internet and mostly YouTube
as it is the most popular and amazing video sharing community that powered by
search giant Google. Lots of the time when we are watching different videos on
YouTube there are certain songs or music included in the background of videos
but we didn’t able to understood from where it was taken.

Mostly when the
popular artist’s song or popular music in the background then it’s easy to find out
the details but the music of certain advertisements and random user content
won’t be find out easily. This kind of difficulties can be overcome
now.

You don’t need to be worry for this now because here is the
solution for you. For solving this problem you have to give a try to
Audentifi.

Audentifi is a audio identifying service for YouTube which can
help you identifying unknown audio from YouTube videos.

How it works ?

Audentifi is a simple and easy to use service. You have to just
copy and paste the YouTube URL in the input box provided and click on Identify
songs.

Audentifi will now scan the song used in YouTube video and if it
is identified by Audentifi then it will show the song and artist name. Also you
will be presented with the link to purchase the song from Amazon or Itunes.
Alternately, you may search for that song on Internet to download it for
free.

Since it is a new service
we can’t say it a perfect service but it is very good service. Most of the cases
it identifies the audio which is unknown to us.

Monday, 28 July 2014

There are lots of tools available for Windows that
are very useful in your day to day life. One of them is
Recordit. It is a very easy to use software for
Windows by which you can capture your screen in GIF file i.e. you can record
your screen activities in the form of GIF files and save them or upload them on
the web.

As GIF files don’t need more space they are easy
to share on the Internet and you can able to make videos of your screen
activities with this simple tool Recordit.

How to record your screen in GIF

You need Recordit software for making your GIF
videos of your computer screen. It is free software for Windows. You may direct
upload GIF files to the Recordit servers from where you can further use the file
on the web or download it for your own use. It is available in a free as well as
a paid version. We are discussing about the free version now.

With free version of Recordit you can record the computer screen
for upto 5 minutes which more than enough for any GIF file. You can download
Recordit from here.

*. After downloading and installing you will see a small camera
icon in your system tray. You just need to click on that and then select the
area for recording and click on Record
button.

*. Once you are done with the recording you can click on
Stop button to stop the recording or you can also
click on flashing icon for Stop from your system tray.

*. Now Recordit will automatically upload the video on the
server after which you will be notified by a small system tray icon. You can
click on it to view the video.

*. To download the created video you must click on the GIF
button on the bottom right corner of the video player and then right click on
the GIF file opened and then click on Save image
as.

*. You can view previously created videos by clicking the
Recent Screencast menu from the system tray
icon.

Recordit is very easy to use software by
which you can create your free GIF screen videos which are very small in size.
So enjoy creating GIF videos of your computer.

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Mostly everyone use PDF format documents to share their files. Because of their portability they are most popular and you can also use them on your smartphones so that they becomes even more portable. For some secure data you may apply password protection for the PDF file. But when forgotten password or you want password for any important PDF document, here are some tools that will help you in recovering password.Aimersoft PDF Password Remover Online

This is a best tool for unblocking password of PDF files online and you don't need to install anything on you computer. With this tool you can unlock PDF files online. Just visit the link and click on upload and upload password protected PDF file. You can also unlock multiple files at simultaneously.PDF unlock Tool by Estelar

This is very useful tool to unlock PDF files. After installing this software you need to provide password protected file to it and it creates another copy of the file by removing password protection from it.

PDF Mate Free PDF Merger

PDF mate is a free PDF unlocking tool and comes with some useful features. Apart from unlocking PDF files, it also ha PDF decrypter, PDF merger, image to PDF converter, PDF splitter and much more. It also support editing, copy and printing of PDF files.

You can use these tools to unlock your PDF password protected files easily can avoid losing your important data.